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* TragicVillain: the muffin man in “recipe for disaster”. As a furnace, all he wanted was to make the children happy. However it was either too hot or too cold for them. But when franny makes him into a baker, he could finally satisfy them. But he took it to far. To the point where he sets up a sweatshop in the basement of the building. Luckily franny managed to show him [[BadFuture what would he got his way.]] he [[HeelFaceTurn instead decides to become a kiln for the children to make sculptures.]]
* UnwantedAssistance: In ''Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid'', Franny is initially bothered by her new lab assistant Igor because the dog keeps trying to help her with her experiments when she doesn't require his assistance and ends up screwing things up.
* UnwantedAssistance: In ''Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid'', Franny is initially bothered by her new lab assistant Igor because the dog keeps trying to help her with her experiments when she doesn't require his assistance and ends up screwing things up.
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* TragicVillain: the muffin man The Muffin Man in “recipe for disaster”. As a furnace, all he wanted was to make the children happy. However it was either too hot or too cold for them. But when franny Franny makes him into a baker, he could finally satisfy them. But he took it too far, to far. To the point where he sets up a sweatshop in the basement of the building. Luckily franny Franny managed to show him [[BadFuture what would happen if he got his way.]] he He [[HeelFaceTurn instead decides to become a kiln for the children to make sculptures.]]
* UnwantedAssistance: In ''Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid'', Franny is initially bothered by her new lab assistantIgor Igor, because the dog keeps trying to help her with her experiments when she doesn't require his assistance assistance, and ends up screwing things up.
* UnwantedAssistance: In ''Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid'', Franny is initially bothered by her new lab assistant
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* ThatsNoMoon: Franny gets that reaction during her view of the supersized Cupid's rump.
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* TragicVillain: the muffin man in “recipe for disaster”. As a furnace, all he wanted was to make the children happy. However it was either too hot or too cold for them. But when franny makes him into a baker, he could finally satisfy them. But he took it to far. To the point where he sets up a sweatshop in the basement of the building. Luckily franny managed to show him [[BadFuture what would he got his way.]] he [[HeelFaceTurn instead decides to become a kiln for the children to make sculptures.]]
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* CreepyChild: Franny pretty much lives this. She routinely has bats in her room. No matter how many times her mom gets rid of them, they just keep reappearing. Franny doesn't get them form anywhere, they just show up, because they like her. In the first book Franny actually tries to get away from this, to fit in. In the end, however, the other students learn to accept Franny for who she is, though they're still kinda scared of her.
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* CreepyChild: Franny pretty much lives this. She routinely has bats in her room. No matter how many times her mom gets rid of them, they just keep reappearing. Franny doesn't get them form from anywhere, they just show up, because they like her. In the first book Franny actually tries to get away from this, to fit in. In the end, however, the other students learn to accept Franny for who she is, though they're still kinda scared of her.
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** In ''The Fran With Four Brains'', the illustration to the end of the fourth chapter shows Franny smiling and walking away after the success of her Time Warp Dessert Plate, with her dog Igor in the background desperately trying to keep a snake from eating the slice of cake that Franny restored with the Time Warp Dessert Plate after she devoured the cake.
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** In ''The Fran With Four Brains'', That Time Forgot'', the illustration to at the end of the fourth chapter shows Franny smiling and walking away after the success of her Time Warp Dessert Plate, with her dog Igor in the background desperately trying to keep a snake from eating the slice of cake that Franny restored with the Time Warp Dessert Plate after she devoured the cake.
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* JokeOfTheButt:
** One chapter in ''Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid'' has Franny wake up to the sight of what she later realizes are the bare buttocks of the titular Cupid.
-->"Pinker? Squishier?" ''Wait a second'', Franny thought. ''That's not the moon... That's the biggest baby butt the world has ever seen.''
** In ''The Invisible Fran'', Franny criticizes a piece of graffiti left by the Two-Headed Robot that reads "The Principal has a Rubber Butt". The narration later mentions Franny having made inaccurate speculations on butts when explaining how discovering that the robot intends to destroy the school's library books angers Franny more than the robot's other acts of vandalism.
** ''The Frandidate'' mentions that Franny has an invention called the Steiny Heinie Ray, which can be used to immobilize people who are sitting down by making their rear ends too large for them to get up.
** One chapter in ''Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid'' has Franny wake up to the sight of what she later realizes are the bare buttocks of the titular Cupid.
-->"Pinker? Squishier?" ''Wait a second'', Franny thought. ''That's not the moon... That's the biggest baby butt the world has ever seen.''
** In ''The Invisible Fran'', Franny criticizes a piece of graffiti left by the Two-Headed Robot that reads "The Principal has a Rubber Butt". The narration later mentions Franny having made inaccurate speculations on butts when explaining how discovering that the robot intends to destroy the school's library books angers Franny more than the robot's other acts of vandalism.
** ''The Frandidate'' mentions that Franny has an invention called the Steiny Heinie Ray, which can be used to immobilize people who are sitting down by making their rear ends too large for them to get up.
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* ButtsAreFunny:
** One chapter in ''Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid'' has Franny wake up to the sight of what she later realizes are the bare buttocks of the titular Cupid.
-->"Pinker? Squishier?" ''Wait a second'', Franny thought. ''That's not the moon... That's the biggest baby butt the world has ever seen.''
** In ''The Invisible Fran'', Franny criticizes a piece of graffiti left by the Two-Headed Robot that reads "The Principal has a Rubber Butt". The narration later mentions Franny having made inaccurate speculations on butts when explaining how discovering that the robot intends to destroy the school's library books angers Franny more than the robot's other acts of vandalism.
** ''The Frandidate'' mentions that Franny has an invention called the Steiny Heinie Ray, which can be used to immobilize people who are sitting down by making their rear ends too large for them to get up.
** One chapter in ''Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid'' has Franny wake up to the sight of what she later realizes are the bare buttocks of the titular Cupid.
-->"Pinker? Squishier?" ''Wait a second'', Franny thought. ''That's not the moon... That's the biggest baby butt the world has ever seen.''
** In ''The Invisible Fran'', Franny criticizes a piece of graffiti left by the Two-Headed Robot that reads "The Principal has a Rubber Butt". The narration later mentions Franny having made inaccurate speculations on butts when explaining how discovering that the robot intends to destroy the school's library books angers Franny more than the robot's other acts of vandalism.
** ''The Frandidate'' mentions that Franny has an invention called the Steiny Heinie Ray, which can be used to immobilize people who are sitting down by making their rear ends too large for them to get up.
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** ''The Frandidate'' mentions that Franny has an invention called the Steiny Heinie Ray, which can be used to immobilize people who are sitting down by making their rear ends too large for them to get up.
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* ButtsAreFunny:
** One chapter in ''Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid'' has Franny wake up to the sight of what she later realizes are the bare buttocks of the titular Cupid.
-->"Pinker? Squishier?" ''Wait a second'', Franny thought. ''That's not the moon... That's the biggest baby butt the world has ever seen.''
** In ''The Invisible Fran'', Franny criticizes a piece of graffiti left by the Two-Headed Robot that reads "The Principal has a Rubber Butt". The narration later mentions Franny having made inaccurate speculations on butts when explaining how discovering that the robot intends to destroy the school's library books angers Franny more than the robot's other acts of vandalism.
** One chapter in ''Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid'' has Franny wake up to the sight of what she later realizes are the bare buttocks of the titular Cupid.
-->"Pinker? Squishier?" ''Wait a second'', Franny thought. ''That's not the moon... That's the biggest baby butt the world has ever seen.''
** In ''The Invisible Fran'', Franny criticizes a piece of graffiti left by the Two-Headed Robot that reads "The Principal has a Rubber Butt". The narration later mentions Franny having made inaccurate speculations on butts when explaining how discovering that the robot intends to destroy the school's library books angers Franny more than the robot's other acts of vandalism.
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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: With the exceptions of the first, second, eighth and ninth books, all books in the series have a title with a pun involving "Fran".
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* BadFuture: ''The Fran That Time Forgot'' had Franny time travel to the future after changing her middle name to Kaboom out of curiosity at what she'll be like when she's older. Much to her horror, she finds her teenage self creating an army of elephant monsters to terrorize the town as payback for everyone laughing at her middle name, since changing it from Kissypie to Kaboom didn't make her middle name any less embarrassing.
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* BadFuture: BadFuture:
** ''The Fran That Time Forgot'' had Franny time travel to the future after changing her middle name to Kaboom out of curiosity at what she'll be like when she's older. Much to her horror, she finds her teenage self creating an army of elephant monsters to terrorize the town as payback for everyone laughing at her middle name, since changing it from Kissypie to Kaboom didn't make her middle name any lessembarrassing.embarrassing.
** Franny saves the day in ''Recipe for Disaster'' by using her Visualizer Helmet to show her dog Igor, Mona, Vincent and the other kids at school what will happen if they don't stop eating the Muffin Man's muffins, all of them seeing that their future selves will be miserable due to their lives being ruined by their addiction to the muffins. The Muffin Man himself also changes his ways when the helmet is used on him and he sees how unhappy everyone will be if he doesn't stop making muffins.
** ''The Fran That Time Forgot'' had Franny time travel to the future after changing her middle name to Kaboom out of curiosity at what she'll be like when she's older. Much to her horror, she finds her teenage self creating an army of elephant monsters to terrorize the town as payback for everyone laughing at her middle name, since changing it from Kissypie to Kaboom didn't make her middle name any less
** Franny saves the day in ''Recipe for Disaster'' by using her Visualizer Helmet to show her dog Igor, Mona, Vincent and the other kids at school what will happen if they don't stop eating the Muffin Man's muffins, all of them seeing that their future selves will be miserable due to their lives being ruined by their addiction to the muffins. The Muffin Man himself also changes his ways when the helmet is used on him and he sees how unhappy everyone will be if he doesn't stop making muffins.
* GoneHorriblyRight: In ''Recipe for Disaster'', Franny helps Mona and Vincent at the school bake sale by creating a robotic baker called the Muffin Man, who she teaches to bake very delicious muffins. The muffins prove successful enough to secure funding for the school's art and music classes, but are so tasty that everyone at the school becomes addicted to the muffins to the point that they abandon their other pursuits just so they can eat more muffins.
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* ImpossiblyDeliciousFood: ''Recipe for Disaster'' has the premise of Franny using the school's old furnace to create a Muffin Man robot and teaching him to make delicious muffins. The muffins prove to be so yummy that the entire school becomes addicted to them and forgoing their usual interests just so they can eat more muffins.
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* ImpossiblyDeliciousFood: ''Recipe for Disaster'' has the premise of Franny using the school's old furnace to create a Muffin Man robot and teaching him to make delicious muffins. The muffins prove to be so yummy that the entire school becomes addicted to them and they start forgoing their usual interests just so they can eat more muffins.
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* ChekhovsGun: ''Recipe for Disaster'' at one point has Franny discuss working on a robot that smells burps and a helmet that enables people to see the future. Both inventions prove helpful for her later, with the burp-smelling robot assisting her in tracking down Igor and her friends when they've all disappeared and the future-viewing helmet enabling her to get her friends and Igor to snap out of their addiction to the Muffin Man's muffins.
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** ''Recipe for Disaster'' - Arts and music are just as important as science.
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* ObliviouslyEvil: The Muffin Man robot in ''Recipe for Disaster'' sees no wrong in continuously making more muffins and making his customers help him make more muffins. When Franny uses the future-viewing helmet on him to see what will happen if he continues doing what he's doing, he is quite devastated to see society crumbling down when he was made to promise that he'd never do anything destructive and to make the best thing he possibly could.
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* ImpossiblyDeliciousFood: ''Recipe for Disaster'' has the premise of Franny using the school's old furnace to create a Muffin Man robot and teaching him to make delicious muffins. The muffins prove to be so yummy that the entire school becomes addicted to them and forgoing their usual interests just so they can eat more muffins.
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* DisneyDeath: After Igor is eaten by one of the two giant monsters that were once Franny's pigtails in ''Bad Hair Day'', Franny believes that Igor has died. Later, Igor snips his way out of the pigtail monster that ate him and is shown to have snipped off his own fur to prevent getting swallowed again.
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* GluttonousPig: Franny's pigtails come to life in ''Bad Hair Day'' after gorging themselves on her growth formula, transforming into giant pig monsters and going on a rampage devouring everything with hair in sight.
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* PrehensileHair: ''Bad Hair Day'' has Franny create a formula that enables her to change the shape of her hair and control her pigtails like tentacles. The pigtails end up becoming sentient and start detaching themselves from Franny's head before engorging themselves on the formula, mutating into giant hairy pig monsters that then go on a rampage devouring everything with hair they can find.
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''Franny K. Stein'' is a series of children's chapter books by Jim Benton, [[HeAlsoDid who also wrote]] ''Literature/DearDumbDiary''. They focus on Franny, who at the tender age of seven is already a practicing mad scientist who turned her own room into her lab. With the aid of her assistant Igor, a dog, Franny is constantly performing experiments. Unfortunately, do to Franny's relative inexperience with life, she rarely thinks her experiments through. This usually leads to all kinds of trouble, which Franny and Igor then have to fix.
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''Franny K. Stein'' is a series of children's chapter books by Jim Benton, [[HeAlsoDid who also wrote]] ''Literature/DearDumbDiary''. They focus on Franny, who at the tender age of seven is already a practicing mad scientist who turned her own room into her lab. With the aid of her assistant Igor, a dog, Franny is constantly performing experiments. Unfortunately, do due to Franny's relative inexperience with life, she rarely thinks her experiments through. This usually leads to all kinds of trouble, which Franny and Igor then have to fix.
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* ContinuityCavalcade: When Franny starts to travel back in time in ''The Fran That Time Forgot'', she witnesses the Pumpkin-Crab Monster, the 50-Ft. Cupid and the two-headed robot from the previous three books.
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** When Franny starts to travel back in time in ''The Fran That Time Forgot'', she witnesses the Pumpkin-Crab Monster, the 50-Ft. Cupid and the two-headed robot from the previous threebooks.books.
** In ''Bad Hair Day'', Franny's mom asks her daughter if she knows anything about the giant pig-like monsters (created from Franny's pigtails coming to life and engorging themselves on Franny's growth formula). Franny answers that of course she knows about this because rampaging creatures are her thing. The illustration shows Franny remembering the Pumpkin-Crab Monster, the 50-Ft. Cupid, the two-headed robot and the Frandidate.
** When Franny starts to travel back in time in ''The Fran That Time Forgot'', she witnesses the Pumpkin-Crab Monster, the 50-Ft. Cupid and the two-headed robot from the previous three
** In ''Bad Hair Day'', Franny's mom asks her daughter if she knows anything about the giant pig-like monsters (created from Franny's pigtails coming to life and engorging themselves on Franny's growth formula). Franny answers that of course she knows about this because rampaging creatures are her thing. The illustration shows Franny remembering the Pumpkin-Crab Monster, the 50-Ft. Cupid, the two-headed robot and the Frandidate.
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** ''Bad Hair Day'' - Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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** ''Bad Hair Day'' - Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.You don't need pretty hair or makeup to be beautiful.
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* AntagonistTitle: The seventh book's title, ''The Frandidate'', refers to a shape-shifting suit Franny made to run for class president that eventually gains a mind of its own and attempts to use its powers of persuasion to manipulate everyone into electing it King of the World.
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* EurekaMoment: There are several occasions where Franny gets inspiration from noticing her surroundings or remembering something she was told earlier.
** In ''Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid'', Franny remembers her brother Freddy snarking that she should use a reverse setting on the Biggerizer to shrink her mouth and gets the idea to enlarge herself to take down the giant Cupid.
** In ''The Invisible Fran'', Franny watches her chameleon use its camouflage ability to sneak up on Igor, which inspires her to create an invisibility formula and use it to whisper ideas into her friends' heads to lure them into pursuing mad science like she does.
** In ''The Fran That Time Forgot'', Franny becomes enraged when everyone laughs at her middle name after her Time Warp Dessert Plate wins the science fair. She was just about to retaliate to the laughter when it occurs to her that she can retool the Time Warp Dessert Plate so she could go back in time and change her middle name.
** ''The Frandidate'' has Franny try to think of a way she can make everyone want to elect her class president after being told by Miss Shelly that her best chance at success is convincing her classmates that she's the best person to vote for. She ends up creating the Frandidate suit after observing Igor give her her stuffed bat Snookyfangs before she even asked for it, accidentally sitting on her chameleon because it blended into the seat of her chair, seeing her parrot mimic her squeal from sitting on her chameleon and reaching the conclusion that she must be able to know exactly what her potential voters want, to take on the form of whatever they'd find appealing and to be able to tell them exactly what they want to hear.
** In ''Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid'', Franny remembers her brother Freddy snarking that she should use a reverse setting on the Biggerizer to shrink her mouth and gets the idea to enlarge herself to take down the giant Cupid.
** In ''The Invisible Fran'', Franny watches her chameleon use its camouflage ability to sneak up on Igor, which inspires her to create an invisibility formula and use it to whisper ideas into her friends' heads to lure them into pursuing mad science like she does.
** In ''The Fran That Time Forgot'', Franny becomes enraged when everyone laughs at her middle name after her Time Warp Dessert Plate wins the science fair. She was just about to retaliate to the laughter when it occurs to her that she can retool the Time Warp Dessert Plate so she could go back in time and change her middle name.
** ''The Frandidate'' has Franny try to think of a way she can make everyone want to elect her class president after being told by Miss Shelly that her best chance at success is convincing her classmates that she's the best person to vote for. She ends up creating the Frandidate suit after observing Igor give her her stuffed bat Snookyfangs before she even asked for it, accidentally sitting on her chameleon because it blended into the seat of her chair, seeing her parrot mimic her squeal from sitting on her chameleon and reaching the conclusion that she must be able to know exactly what her potential voters want, to take on the form of whatever they'd find appealing and to be able to tell them exactly what they want to hear.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In ''The Fran With Four Brains'', the illustration to the end of the fourth chapter shows Franny smiling and walking away after the success of her Time Warp Dessert Plate, with her dog Igor in the background desperately trying to keep a snake from eating the slice of cake that Franny restored with the Time Warp Dessert Plate after she devoured the cake.
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** In ''The Fran With Four Brains'', the illustration to the end of the fourth chapter shows Franny smiling and walking away after the success of her Time Warp Dessert Plate, with her dog Igor in the background desperately trying to keep a snake from eating the slice of cake that Franny restored with the Time Warp Dessert Plate after she devoured thecake.cake.
** An illustration in ''The Frandidate'' shows Franny talking with her teacher Miss Shelly while the background shows Igor being tossed into the air by the cat/clown monster Franny created outside the classroom window.
** In ''The Fran With Four Brains'', the illustration to the end of the fourth chapter shows Franny smiling and walking away after the success of her Time Warp Dessert Plate, with her dog Igor in the background desperately trying to keep a snake from eating the slice of cake that Franny restored with the Time Warp Dessert Plate after she devoured the
** An illustration in ''The Frandidate'' shows Franny talking with her teacher Miss Shelly while the background shows Igor being tossed into the air by the cat/clown monster Franny created outside the classroom window.
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* ArtisticLicenseEducation: Franny somehow doesn't get in trouble for bringing her dog Igor to school in ''Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid'' and ''The Frandidate''.
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* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: In ''The Frandidate'', Franny's first attempt at making people want her to be elected class president has her bring to school a monster who is a cat/clown hybrid with soccer balls for eyes who coughs up puppies and has cake coming out of its ears.
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* LandslideElection: Exaggerated in ''The Frandidate'', where Franny's Frandidate suit manages to win over everyone in school to the point that they don't even bother with an election and just make Franny class president on the spot.
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* ComedicSpanking: In ''The Frandidate'', Franny first hears about the school running an election for class president and starts sketching ideas for a dungeon she could build at school for punishing people who disobey her in the event that she wins. The illustration shows a drawing of Franny grinning evilly while standing next to a machine spanking someone.
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* AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder: The titular creation of ''The Frandidate'' is a living suit Franny creates that enables the wearer to transform into whatever the person looking at them likes.
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** ''The Frandidate'' - Telling the truth is better than manipulating everyone with lies.
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* BreadEggsMilkSquick: One chapter in ''The Fran With Four Brains'' describes Franny as enjoying the following typical kid things: playing with her toys, reading books and bringing a monster to life through the application of a jillion volts of electricity.
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* BreadEggsMilkSquick: BreadEggsMilkSquick:
** One chapter in ''The Fran With Four Brains'' describes Franny as enjoying the following typical kid things: playing with her toys, reading books and bringing a monster to life through the application of a jillion volts ofelectricity.electricity.
** It is mentioned in ''The Frandidate'' that Franny's favorite subjects aside from electric power are chemistry, nuclear power and brain removal.
** One chapter in ''The Fran With Four Brains'' describes Franny as enjoying the following typical kid things: playing with her toys, reading books and bringing a monster to life through the application of a jillion volts of
** It is mentioned in ''The Frandidate'' that Franny's favorite subjects aside from electric power are chemistry, nuclear power and brain removal.
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* RobotHair: The Franbots in ''The Fran With Four Brains'' have triangular pigtails to complete their resemblance to Franny.
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* MysteriousTeachersLounge: When first going to school under the effects of her invisibility potion in ''The Invisible Fran'', Franny takes advantage of her invisibility by using it to see exactly what the faculty members are doing when children aren't around. She peeks inside the teacher's lounge and sees the teachers dancing.
